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Winflows Help Jul-20

1. INTRODUCTION TO WINFLOWS ......................................................................................................................... 5

2. OVERVIEW OF PROGRAM USE ........................................................................................................................... 6

2.1 TOOL BAR - MAIN ................................................................................................................................................6

2.2 TOOL BAR - FLOWSHEET ........................................................................................................................................7

2.3 MENU COMMANDS ..............................................................................................................................................7

2.3.1 File Menu ..................................................................................................................................................7

2.3.2 View Menu ................................................................................................................................................8

2.3.3 Flowsheet Menu .......................................................................................................................................9

2.3.4 Input Menu .............................................................................................................................................10

2.3.5 Calculate Menu .......................................................................................................................................10

2.3.6 Reports Menu .........................................................................................................................................10

2.3.7 Options Menu .........................................................................................................................................11

2.3.8 Language 语言Menu .............................................................................................................................12

2.3.9 Help Menu ..............................................................................................................................................12

2.4 PROJECT INFORMATION .......................................................................................................................................12

2.5 FEED SPECIFICATION ...........................................................................................................................................13

2.5.1 Multiple Feed ..........................................................................................................................................14

2.5.2 Design Guidelines....................................................................................................................................15

2.5.3 Export and Import ......................................................................................................................................15

2.6 FLOWSHEET CONFIGURATION ...............................................................................................................................16

2.7 CHEMICAL DOSING .............................................................................................................................................17

2.8 GAS STRIPPING ..................................................................................................................................................17

2.9 HIGH PRESSURE PUMP ........................................................................................................................................18

2.10 SPECIFYING FLOW RATES ...................................................................................................................................18

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 2.11 ARRAY SPECIFICATION .......................................................................................................................................19

2.11.1 Check Web for New Database ..............................................................................................................19

2.11.2 Element Age Calculation .......................................................................................................................20

2.12 ARGO ANALYZER ..............................................................................................................................................21

2.13 ELECTRO DEIONIZATION (EDI) ............................................................................................................................22

2.13.1 Save EDI Water Analysis .......................................................................................................................24

2.13.2 Open EDI Water Analysis ......................................................................................................................25

2.14 WORK EXCHANGER ..........................................................................................................................................26

2.15 PRESSURE EXCHANGER ......................................................................................................................................27

2.16 TURBO CHARGER .............................................................................................................................................28

2.17 PELTON WHEEL ...............................................................................................................................................29

2.18 CAPEX / OPEX .................................................................................................................................................30

2.19 STEP-UP FUNCTION ..........................................................................................................................................31

2.20 CARTRIDGE FILTERS ..........................................................................................................................................32

3. GETTING STARTED TUTORIAL ........................................................................................................................... 33

3.1 THE DESIGN ASSISTANT .......................................................................................................................................34

3.2 PROJECT INFO....................................................................................................................................................35

3.3 FLOW SHEET CONFIGURATION ..............................................................................................................................35

3.4 FEED SPECIFICATION ...........................................................................................................................................37

3.5 FLOW SPECIFICATION ..........................................................................................................................................38

3.6 ARRAY SPECIFICATION .........................................................................................................................................38

3.7 EXPLORER .........................................................................................................................................................39

3.8 REPORT ............................................................................................................................................................40

4. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION .............................................................................................................................. 41

5. HINTS AND TIPS ............................................................................................................................................... 41

6. MANAGING WINFLOWS WINDOWS ................................................................................................................. 42

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 THE ERRORS WINDOW ..................................................................................................................................................42

THE FLOW SHEET WINDOW............................................................................................................................................42

THE STREAMS WINDOW ................................................................................................................................................43

UNITS ........................................................................................................................................................................43

A AND B FACTORS ........................................................................................................................................................44

MIX SPLIT STREAMS WITH PRODUCT ................................................................................................................................44

LOAD ADDITIONAL ELEMENTS .........................................................................................................................................45

7. TECHNICAL SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................................... 45

8. DISCLAIMER ..................................................................................................................................................... 45

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Winflows – Trademark SUEZ; may be registered in one or more countries
Software code developed by GE ITC India.
This tool was developed in Visual Studio in .Net platform.
Winflows 4.01 provides a rapid means for developing functional desalination system designs. The user is assumed
to possess basic familiarity with the principles of reverse osmosis system design and knowledge of required
performance of the system under consideration. Further help and discussion may be found through links to the
following sections.

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Winflows 4.01 is a software tool used to design Reverse Osmosis applications. This program was designed to allow
easy, quick, and intuitive design of reverse osmosis systems.
It can be used to design an integrated desalination system, by making use of the following add-on features along
with the RO system
• Chemical dosing – feed and product
• Argo Analyzer tool for antiscalant selection
• Gas stripping – feed and product
• Cartridge Filters
• Electro deionization (EDI) for permeate stream
• Energy recovery devices – Work and pressure exchangers, Turbochargers and Pelton wheel
• Feed bypass and concentrate recycle options
• Split permeate option
• Mixing of multiple feed water compositions
After successfully installing Winflows on the system, the Winflows 4.01 icon gets automatically created on the
desktop. Winflows session can be started either by double clicking the icon or through program files or by double-
clicking the existing Winflows *.win file. At any given time, 3 different sessions of Winflows can be opened
simultaneously.
Data can be entered via the Design Assistant or from the Flow Sheet or from any of the Menu commands.

Left to right, the features provided are icons for:

• Create a new Winflows projection
• Open an existing Winflows file
• Save the file
• Calculator
• Design Assistant
• Auto Design
• Check Web for Database Updates

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Left to right, the features provided are icons of Single pass, Two pass, Two stage where the first stage concentrate
is brought down to atmospheric pressure, Three pass with third pass concentrate recirculated to the first pass feed,
, Three pass with third pass concentrate recirculated to the second pass feed, Feed pre dosing, Feed after dosing,
Intermediate dosing 1, Intermediate dosing 2, Pre-product dosing, Product dosing, Argo analyzer, Feed Stripper,
Permeate stripper 1, Permeate stripper2, Permeate stripper 3, Feed bypass, Inter-pass pump 1, Inter-pass pump 2,
EDI, Work and Pressure exchangers, Turbo charger, Pelton wheel, and Cartridge filters.

The user can access all of Winflows potential and functions through the use of the keyboard and the commands on
the menu bar. The menu bar consists of 7 menus and 1 switch. Following is a brief description of each of the
menus and its related commands.

New Project: Start a new project file

Design Assistant: 1. Winflows Project Wizard: Automatically leads the user
through the general system design parameters, step by step.
2. Auto Design: Provides the user assistance and guidance in
developing an array layout for Single stage only.
Open Project: Open an existing project file.
Save: Save the active project file.
Save As: Save the active project file with another name.

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 Check Web for New Database: Directs user to the Winflows website to check for database
updates.
URL:
https://www.suezwatertechnologies.com/resources/winflo
ws
The Winflows Program periodically (every 30 days) checks
for application as well as database updates internally. If
there is a new version available, then a message would be
prompted as “A new version of Winflows database is
available for download. Do you want to install?” This
message repeats appearing every day till the user updates.
Similar thing happens each time a new version of the
application (Winflows) is available at the website
Recent Files: Provides a list of recently opened Winflows
projections
Exit: Exit Winflows

Errors and Warnings: View any errors noted in the project

design/calculation.

Stream Data: View the Stream data.

Explorer: View the status of critical indices/parameters. Comes

up automatically after calculations are complete.

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 Single Pass, Two Pass, Two Stage, Three pass - Feed, Select the architecture of the design, other enabled
Three Pass - Inter features are related to the choice made here.

Feed Pre Dosing, Feed After Dosing, Intermediate Select the chemical dosing desired. Available options
Dosing 1, Intermediate Dosing 2, Pre-product dosing, are dependent upon the system architecture.
Product dosing
Argo Analyzer In practically all cases, choose “Concentrate
composition calculated by Winflows”.
Feed stripper, Premeate stripper 1, Premeate Select where to apply CO2 stripping. Available options
stripper 2, Premeate stripper 3 are dependent upon the system architecture.
Feed Bypass Select bypass of Feed water to be blended with the
permeate of the final stage
High Pressure Pump, Inter-pass Select the use of a pump between the pass 1 and pass 2
pump 1, Inter-pass pump 2 arrays.
EDI Select the EDI on the product line, Split Permeate1and
Split Permeate 2.
Work and Pressure Exchanger, Select the Work Exchanger / Pressure Exchanger/Pelton
Turbo Charger, Pelton Wheel Wheel on the first pass, where concentrate stream is
used to pressurize the part of the feed stream flowing
through them.
Cartridge Filters Select the option of choosing different Cartridge Filters.

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 Project Info, Flowsheet, Feed, Flow Rates, Array The user can select the dialog box (window) that allows
Data, Dosing, Stripping, Pump entry of detailed data for the topic of interest. The windows
have clear command buttons and labels.

This button executes the calculations as per the given inputs. Calculations can also be performed by using the
keyboard shortcut of “ALT+C”. The main RO calculation has to be performed first before calculating other features
like EDI, Pressure exchangers, Argo Analyzer etc.

Generate Report: This feature will generate the report for the projection,
with all the input and output data, in MS Excel format.
Report Options: The user can select the sections of the report that
needs to be generated.

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 Units: The user can select the units for temperature, pressure,
flow, element flux, and power.
A & B Factors: The user can select as inputs either the age or A- and B- value
Factors for the elements used for RO design
Pump (Specify Feed Pressure): The user can specify the discharge pressures for the High
Pressure pumps.
Step Up Function: The user can run sensitivity analysis for the entire projection
at various values of temperature and element age, and view
the effect on feed pressure, product TDS and product
chloride concentration
Mix Split Stream with Product: The user can mix the either two or more of the split streams
with the Product stream in the projection and the results will
be displayed in the report as mixed streams.
Combine Stages: The user can combine one or more stages
together in the report based on the criteria of adjacent
stages, maximum of eight stages, zero pressure drop
across the stages and equal permeate pressure.
Capex / Opex: The user can calculate the Capital expenditure of
membranes, housing, pumps and strippers in Capex. The
Opex includes the Operational costs of the chemicals dosed
and the electric power costs.
Load Additional Elements: The user can load additional elements by
entering the correct password and otherwise
default membranes are loaded.
Load Additional Antiscalant: This menu is used to add the additional antiscalant by
entering the password.

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 语言

English Winflows in English language

Chinese Winflows in Chinese language

Help: Opens the Help document (as a pdf file)

Design Guidelines Opens the RO design guidelines table
RO Design Guideline Tips: Opens the report on “Tips on Designing RO Units Operating
on Natural Waters with Below 5000 mg/L TDS”
Element List Opens the list of available elements
About: Opens the “About Winflows” window. This window
contains version and copyright information.

This dialog box allows the user to enter project information. This information is used to identify reports generated
by Winflows. This dialog box can be opened by selecting “Project Info” under the Input menu.

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This dialog box allows the user to specify the properties of the feed stream. This dialog box can be opened by
selecting the “Feed” command on the flow sheet or in the Input menu.

The columns meq/L and ppm as CaCO3 list the charge concentrations of the respective species. The charge of several
of the species are pH dependent. Winflows considered this for sulfate, fluoride, hydrogen sulfide, boron, ammonia-
N, silica, and phosphate. For example, at pH 7, almost all the boron is present as non-charged boric acid while at pH
11, almost all boron is present as a borate anion. With 5 mg/L boron present in a stream, the listed meq/L of boron
might become 0.005 at pH 7, while it becomes 0.46 at pH 11.

Struvite
Struvite (Ammonium Magnesium Phosphate) is a phosphate mineral with formula: NH4MgPO4·6H2O. It is
sparingly soluble in neutral and alkaline conditions, but readily soluble in acid. In neutral to high pH water, Struvite
precipitates and forms hard scale in the pipes which is difficult to remove. Also, waters containing excessive
ammonia and phosphates (like waste water, where the anaerobic bacteria produces ammonium) lead to Struvite
scaling in the pipes. Winflows provides Struvite saturation data for all streams.

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This dialog box allows the user to mix up to 3 different feeds in different flow percentages.

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This dialog box allows the user to look at certain vital design limitations before designing.

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This dialog box allows the user to export a feed composition and import any saved feed composition for Winflows
analysis.

This dialog box enables the user to specify the flow sheet type and options to be used in the design. This dialog box
can be opened by selecting the Flow sheet command on the Input menu. Alternately, the various options can be
selected / unselected by clicking the respective icon in the flowsheet.

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This dialog box allows the user to select the chemical to be used for the selected stream and to specify a target pH,
Hardness, Alkalinity and LSI. This dialog box can be opened by selecting the Dosing command on the Input menu.

This dialog box allows the user to select the chemicals to be removed from any stream. The user can strip at a time
any or all three gases (if they exist in the stream) namely CO2, H2S and NH3 and specify their exit concentrations.
This dialog box can be opened by selecting the Stripping command on the Input menu. Note that the input field to
the left of “Activate” must be checked for the stripper to be activated.

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This dialog box allows the user to input the inlet pressure of the feed entering the RO and the pump efficiencies. The
calculated pump power consumption is displayed. This dialog box can be opened by selecting the Pump command
on the Input menu.

This dialog box allows the user to select the flow rate location and quantity that will control the system design. The
user can also specify the RO recovery, recycle and bypass flow rates. This dialog box can be opened by selecting the
Flow Rates command on the Input menu.

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This dialog box allows the user to specify the number of stages, housings per stage, number of elements per housing,
type of element, age, some Flows, fouling and pressure parameters for the arrays used in the design. This dialog box
can be opened by selecting the Array command on the Input menu.
The concentrates from the elements housings in a stage are combined and then separated to feed the different
housings in the downstream stage. This combination followed by separation causes a pressure loss, which here is
called Interstage Pressure Loss. How big it is depends on the design of the RO unit and flow rates. In most cases, the
user does not know how big it is. It is in most cases acceptable to ignore it or insert for example 5 psi (34 kPa).
Recycle Permeate from the Last Stage to Feed Pump option is applicable only to single pass configuration.
RO Machine Model functionality is given to select the particular model and get the corresponding RO system
configuration automatically.
Temperature Difference input box is applicable only for 2nd Pass and 3rd Pass configuration.
Element fact sheets (as pdf files) can be opened for the selected element by clicking on “Element Info”.

On clicking this button, Winflows will check for the database update on SUEZ Water Technologies and Solutions
website. If a new version is available on the website then, Winflows will prompt the user as “A new version of
Winflows database is available. Do you want to download it?” and will show the location to replace the database
file.
If the user selects ‘yes’, then Winflows will automatically open the website to download the database.

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If no new version is available, Winflows will prompt “Winflows Database is up to date.”

This dialog box allows the user to calculate the average element age for a given replacement fraction and
replacement interval and vice versa.

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This dialog box allows the user to invoke the Argo Analyzer feature to select the suitable antiscalant to add to the
feed at a given composition. This feature also calculates the effect of recovery on saturation of various salts.
Aluminum is not added to Winflows’ Feed water composition, but if it is present, it should be added to the Argo
Analyzer window, so it is included in the scaling calculations.
In practically all applications, “Concentrate composition calculated by Winflows”, should be chosen, because it is
more accurate than that calculated by Argo Analyzer.

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This dialog box allows the user to select EDI (Electro deionization) feature either as a standalone option or on the
final product stream. For standalone applications feed composition should be manually fed in the Feed water
analysis window. When integrated with the flowsheet, the water composition of the final product stream is
automatically copied to the feed of EDI. This option also works on the split permeate stream.

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Feed water requirements tables is as follows:

Product guarantee table is as follows:

Stand-alone EDI is as follows:

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This dialog box allows the user to save the changed feed water composition and EDI data to a comma-separated
values file.

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This dialog box allows the user to open a saved data file containing water analysis and EDI data.

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This dialog box allows the user to select and configure a work exchanger to recover the energy from the concentrate
stream to pressurize the feed water going in to RO.

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This dialog box allows the user to select a pressure exchanger to pressurize the feed water going in to RO.

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This dialog box allows user to place the Turbo Changer at any stage of RO.

This dialog box allows the user to configure a Turbo Changer to recover the energy from the concentrate stream and
to pressurize the feed water going in to RO.

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This dialog box allows the user to configure a Pelton Wheel to recover the energy from the brine stream.

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This dialog box allows the user to calculate partial Capex and Opex values. Capex calculations include that of
elements, housing and strippers. Opex calculations provide dosed chemical costs and pump energy costs.

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This dialog feature enables the user to perform sensitivity analysis for feed pressure, TDS and chlorine concentration
by varying temperatures for an interval of 10 steps and element age for an interval of 5 steps.

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This feature enables the user to choose the right kind of Cartridge filter suitable for the given feed conditions.

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This tutorial consists of the design of an RO system using the Design Assistant to get a first pass design and then the
addition of a few refinements to achieve the targeted water quality. The following criteria describe the example
system:

Feed stream composition:

Compound or Element mg/liter

Calcium 83
Magnesium 25
Sodium 106
Potassium 8
Ammonia 2
Barium 0.05
Strontium 0.1
Iron 1
Manganese 0.1
Sulfate 130
Chloride 207
Fluoride 1
Nitrate 5
Bromide 0
Phosphate 1
Boron 0
Silica 5
Bicarbonate 149.39
Carbonate 0.11
Carbon Dioxide 18.82
TDS 724.49
Gal/min Feed 60
Permeate pH 7
Number of passes 1
Feed Bypass Yes
Feed Predosing Yes
After Feed Dosing Yes
Product Dosing Yes
Argo analyzer Yes

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 Feed Stripping Yes
Product Stripping Yes
HP Pump Yes
EDI Yes
ERD Yes

The above information will enable the development of a first pass design within a couple of minutes using the Design
Assistant. After the first pass design is completed, one can look at the results and make design adjustments where
required or desired.
The above figure shows that the system can be configured by selecting the following buttons on the design toolbar
at the top of the window.

The Design Assistant, accessible from the main menu bar, steps the user through the steps involved in the design of
an RO system in a logical and orderly manner. Two approaches are available from the Design Assistant.
• Winflows Step Design - Manual entry of data

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 • Auto Design - Winflows fills in default data. Defaults can be over-ridden by the user. Auto design will only
function for single stage designs.
The Winflows Step Design and Auto Design functions will carry the user through each of the steps necessary to
complete a design. Next moves you to the next step, previous or back goes to the prior step. Exit quits the Design
Assistant but any changes made in previous dialogs are saved.
Project Information (Optional): Enter any project information you want to save here.
Feed Analysis or Specifying The Feed (Required): However, pressing Next with no data present will allow the Design
Assistant to set the feed water analysis to 100 ppm NaCl.
Flow sheet Configuration (Optional): The default is single stage or the current configuration set by the user.
Chemical Dosing (Optional): The default is no chemical treatment.
Chemical Stripping (Optional): The default is no chemical stripping.
Flow rates or Specifying Flow Rates (Required): No defaults are initially set, however, data set from the flow sheet
will appear in this dialog as defaults.
Pump (Required): You must specify an inlet pressure in the pump to calculate the efficiency and Power consumed.
Array Specification (Required): You must specify an array layout and at least 1 element/housing and 1 housing per
stage. The Auto Design function will calculate a default array for single stage systems.
Pressing the finish button on the Array Specification Dialog activates the calculation algorithm and presents the user
with the results.

This dialog box allows the user to enter project information. This information is used to identify reports generated
by Winflows. This dialog box can be opened by selecting the Project Info command on the Input menu.

The second step in the design assistant (expert mode), is to specify the features that will control the design: the
characteristics or volume of the permeate stream, dosing chemical, stripping, feed Bypass, Recycles, EDI and ERD’s.

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The third step in the design assistant, expert mode is to provide information to describe the chemical composition
of the Feed Stream.

On this screen the user has the option of entering the concentration of selected elements or compounds or they can
select a typical feed stream from the drop-down list labeled Water Analysis. In this example a custom composition
is entered. To ensure ionic balance, the program will add either Sodium or Chloride.

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On this screen the user can enter the RO recovery, Flow rate, Dosing and pH. Note that the Recovery of a pass is all
the permeates from the pass divided with the incoming feed water to the pass from upstream passes and raw feed
water to the RO system.

The fourth and final step in the design assistant is to specify the number of stages, number of housings and type and
number of RO elements in each housing. The design assistant does all of this for the user upon entry to the window.
The design assistant configures the first array only. In this example the second pass array was made identical to the
first pass array. The user has the option of modifying the configuration of either array to optimize permeate quality

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and to minimize system cost. When the user presses Finish, Winflows does the calculations and the results
compiled for review.

This window automatically opens after the program has calculated the results of the selected design. The system
explorer presents the user with a summary of the results and alerts the user to any errors or potential problems with
the design. To view the errors, the user can press the F11 key or select Errors from the View menu. The error
analysis will give helpful suggestions on how to resolve the problem.

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This window is opened by selecting Generate reports on the Reports menu. In the Report Options section the user
can select, whichever sections that need to be present in the report. The report contains the following sections on
separate sheets.

Input Data Summary: User can view all the input data are entered
Results Summary: User can view the summary of the calculation results
Process Data Sheet: User can view all the calculated output on the process
side, like Flow, Pump, Stripper, Dosing and Argo Analyzer.
Streams Info: User can view all the streams data
Element Detail Data: User can view the Array data in detail.
EDI: User can view the EDI input and output data.
ERD: User can view the ERD’s
(Work Exchanger / Pressure Exchanger, Turbo charger
and Pelton Wheel) output data.
Capex / Opex: User can view the capital and operational costs in the
Project

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The Winflows© program is copyrighted and trademarked by SUEZ. All rights reserved.

This section is currently empty.

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Winflows provides a variety of different windows to allow the user to view both program input and program results.
These windows are:

This screen displays the Warning and Error messages that had occurred during a project execution in Winflows.

This figure shows a projection including all the features existing in Winflows with a display panel at the bottom of
the screen.

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On this screen the user can view the calculated properties of all the streams in a flowsheet and export the data and
save as CSV file.

This dialog box allows the user to select different units for the given parameters.

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This dialog box allows the user to select either element age or A-factor and B-factor as inputs for the RO design.

This dialog box allows the users to mix different split streams along with the product stream and is shown in the
report.

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This dialog box allows the users to load additional elements into the tool by providing the appropriate password and
in normal case default elements are loaded.

For technical support contact: Tamas.Zsirai@suez.com

Any projection simulated on Winflows does not represent a guarantee of performance and is provided solely as a
service. The data contained herein should be used consistent with good engineering judgment.

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